Lolicon
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Occam's razor, people. Given the nature of Bandai preorders, people will buy it wherever they can get it, discount or not. You may not have a choice.
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They know it's going to be a hot item and sell out fast, so what's the incentive for discounting it?
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Lolicon replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I'm interested in hearing what you think about it. I already have the 2199 version and wasn't sure this one was different/better enough to warrant another purchase. -
Good luck getting a preorder in at HS.
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Now that's a terrific job of rehabilitating a beat up yellowed valk!
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A little over 6 hours to go. Got my desktop, laptop, and phone ready. Hope Amazon ships to the US for this one.
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The Yamato VF-11 only became coveted long after it was sold out and no longer produced. It was a shelf warmer when it was available. I got mine for 50% off from HLJ.
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Just one for me. Hope to get one from Amazon or HLJ to save on shipping.
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Kakizaki's 1A better come with a fat pilot figure.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Lolicon replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
It took over 20 years but we finally got *a* release of at least one of the mecha from Xenogears. Hope they release the others.
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If given a choice between a DX or HMR of a particular valkyrie, I'll take the DX version. Bring on the DX YF-21 already!
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Lolicon replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
If you want to save on shipping costs, you can just fly to Japan and pick it up in person from Mandarake. -
When Mandarake says a box is damaged, it means a corner might be ever so slightly dinged.
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Macross Δ (Delta) Movie Gekijō no Walkūre (Passionate Walkure)
Lolicon replied to no3Ljm's topic in Movies and TV Series
I finally sat down to watch the Delta movie last night. I wasn't expecting much and in that regard it did not disappoint. Essentially a Cliff's Notes version of the TV series, that made it slightly more enjoyable. Instead of 26 episodes of mostly interminable crap, it was compressed to two hours, so the movie at least moved along at a brisk pace. Some parts were tweaked, moved around, or dropped altogether, which improved things a bit. We got lots of valkyrie action, which was good, but a lot of it felt disjointed. It was like watching a series of video game cut scenes but skipping over all the gameplay parts that connected those scenes. How could Hayate and Mirage fly so terribly in one battle, only to become super ace pilots in the next? With Mirage piloting an enemy craft, no less. I guess the Draken III really is that user-friendly! I could go on and on about how bad a movie this was and the state of anime in general and all that nonsense, but instead I'll just say: skip the TV series and just watch this. It'll make as much sense, but at least you'll save about 10 hours of your life. -
Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Lolicon replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Finally got around to opening the backlog of parcels. Got a new shirt.
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Thanks! You're right; there's no way any HMR valkyrie is better than any Yamato valkyrie, at least from the V2 VF-1 onwards. The VF-4 is a nicely engineered little toy, but very plain straight out of the box. As you noted, the markings are off and Bandai for some reason stopped painting navigational lights, which they did on the smaller VF-1. That just adds to the plain-ness, like it's an incomplete model. I felt the same way about the VF-2. Ironic given that Bandai is known for tampo printing so much stuff, yet they can't bother on their HMR releases. This was a pretty expensive HMR! Thanks you, sir! Me too. It seems Bandai went through the hassle of sorting through the red tape to get the FB2012 rights. I hope Arcadia can get the rights for 1/60 scale and give us a perfect FB2012 version.
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Snagged Cap and Black Widow from HLJ yesterday when they were briefly available. Got Ronin and Ant-man from Amazon. Got Nano set 2 and Thanos from USA Gundam Store. Now I just need to find a non-gougy Mark 85 or at least with only a small mark-up. Remind me why people love Bandai again?
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The HMR line's track record with pilots is pitiful, from the wrong size to the completely wrong pilot being included. Getting *a* pilot included that's painted more or less the correct colors is about the best one can hope for with this line. They're small enough to where I can ignore some things. Heck, you can't even really see the pilot that well through the VF-4 canopy as the canopy shape warps light passing through it. I do however put some effort into repainting DX pilot figures.
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You can take most of it apart by removing a few screws and popping the ball joints off. Wings and canards can be popped off too. Thank you, sir! Hmm really? Must be the lighting or color balance. They're definitely the same color in person.
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Thanks! And is that what it's called? I just added the light because it was on the Yamato version. I wonder why Bandai stopped painting the navigational lights? The HMR VF-1 has them. Still using Mr. Topcoat from GSI Creos. Yeah that's his FB2012 flight suit. Not expecting Bandai to give us a perfectly screen accurate suit at this scale. They didn't even give us the correct pilot on Nexx's VF-2SS.
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That's her! Nothing like seeing a powerful android reduced to cooking and cleaning for some high school kid. My favorite episodes of TNG were of Data helping Wesley get his chores done.
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Dude, that's a sweet coat! lol I've seen people use satin and semi-gloss interchangeably so they mean the same thing to me. Though most paints I've used are either gloss or flat. Certainly all the bottles of paint I have are one or the other; no semi-gloss paints here! Only seen it on finishing materials.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Lolicon replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I think "doin' us dirty" is Bandai's new MO going into the future. Making us buy missiles separately for VFs, making us buy the damn Mark 50 over and over just to get a few accessories. I'm surprised Cap's shield and Thanos' double-bladed sword aren't being sold separately as a TWE weapon pack. Looks good! I don't really like the F design, but glad to see Eaglemoss produced a good quality ship. -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
Lolicon replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
The site doesn't automatically switch to desktop mode when visiting on a PC, so I get the mobile site blown up on my 4k monitor lol -
Satin coat. Flat coats look nice but I always end up regretting it because they scuff so much more easily and visibly. Gerwalk and battroid mode. I wasn't a fan before, but the VF-4's battroid has grown on me. I'm off to the galactic core with my two M honies!
